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Market Maker Surveillance Report. CPWM, THC, ALTH, CSCO, MSFT, F, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Wednesday, May 9th 2012

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May 9, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Wednesday there were 3802 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1891 companies with positive Friction Factors and 3898 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bullish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices rose. Cost Plus Inc (NASDAQ:CPWM), TENET HEALTHCARE CORP (NYSE:THC), ALLOS THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:ALTH), CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO), MICROSOFT CORPORATION (NASDAQ:MSFT), Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .

Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:

  Symbol  Change    Percent   Buy Volume   Buy %%    Sell Volume  Sell %%   Net Volume   Friction
  CPWM    $3.900    21.70%    7,075,428    43.82%    9,048,737    56.04%    -1,973,309   Abnormal
  THC     $0.020    0.36%     2,886,599    20.27%    4,605,970    32.34%    -1,719,371   Abnormal
  ALTH    $0.010    0.55%     902,013      28.26%    2,289,836    71.74%    -1,387,823   Abnormal
  CSCO    $0.290    1.55%     29,852,387   46.61%    33,800,626   52.77%    -3,948,239   Abnormal
  MSFT    $0.080    0.26%     22,651,241   45.15%    27,086,618   53.99%    -4,435,377   Abnormal
  F       $0.080    0.75%     13,922,613   25.58%    16,165,094   29.70%    -2,242,481   Abnormal

For example, the chart above shows CPWM with 1,973,309 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $3.90000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more selling than buying should cause prices to drop.

Cost Plus Inc (NASDAQ:CPWM) - Cost Plus, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products in the United States. It offers decorating items, including furniture, rugs, pillows, bath linens, lamps, window coverings, frames, and baskets; and furniture products comprising ready-to-assemble living and dining room pieces, handcrafted case goods, occasional pieces, and outdoor furniture made from various materials, such as rattan, hardwood, and wrought iron. The company also provides tabletop and kitchen items, including glassware, ceramics, textiles, and cooking utensils; gift and decorative accessories, including collectibles, candles, framed art, and holiday and other seasonal items; and jewelry, fashion accessories, and personal care items. In addition, Cost Plus offers gourmet foods and beverages comprising wine, microbrewed and imported beer, coffee, tea, and bottled water. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 268 stores under the name of World Market, Cost Plus World Market, Cost Plus Imports, and World Market Stores in 30 states. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

TENET HEALTHCARE CORP (NYSE:THC) - Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health care services company, operates general hospitals and related health care facilities. The companys general hospitals offer acute care services, radiology services, and respiratory therapy services, as well as operate operating and recovery rooms, and clinical laboratories and pharmacies. It also provides intensive care, critical care and/or coronary care units, and physical therapy; orthopedic, oncology, and outpatient services; tertiary care services, such as open-heart surgery, neonatal intensive care, and neuroscience; quaternary care in areas, including heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants; gamma-knife brain surgery; cyberknife surgery for tumors and lesions in the brain, lung, neck, and spine; and bone marrow transplants. As of December 31, 2008, Tenet Healthcare Corporation operated 53 general hospitals; and a critical access hospital with a combined total of 14,352 licensed beds serving urban and rural communities. The company also operated various related health care facilities, including a rehabilitation hospital; a long-term acute care hospital; a skilled nursing facility; various medical office buildings; and physician practices, captive insurance companies, and other ancillary health care businesses, such as outpatient surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and occupational and rural health care clinics, as well as owned interests in two health maintenance organizations. It has a joint venture agreement with MED3000 Inc. to provide services to physician practices. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with additional offices in Santa Ana, California; Coral Springs, Florida; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ALLOS THERAPEUTICS INC (NASDAQ:ALTH) - Allos Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing anti-cancer therapeutics. It is developing FOLOTYN (pralatrexate injection), a folate analogue metabolic inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma. The company is also developing FOLOTYN as a single agent and in combination therapy regimens in various hematologic malignancies and solid tumor indications, including stage IV breast cancer and recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancer. It sells FOLOTYN to pharmaceutical wholesale distributors who then resell it to patients respective health care providers. The company was formerly known as HemoTech Sciences, Inc. and changed its name to Allos Therapeutics, Inc. in October 1994. Allos Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.

CISCO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:CSCO) - Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. It offers routers that interconnect public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications; switching products, which offer connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers; application networking services; and home networking products, such as adapters, gateways, modems, and home network management software products. The company also provides security products comprising span firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private network, unified client, Web, and email security products; storage area networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems; unified communication products to integrate voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; video systems, including digital set-top boxes and digital media products; and wireless systems. In addition, it offers optical networking products, cable access and flip video products, service provider VoIP services, Cisco TelePresence systems, Cisco Unified Computing Systems, physical security and video surveillances, digital media systems, and building systems. Further, the company provides technical support services; and responsive, preventive, and consultative support services for its technologies. Cisco Systems, Inc. has strategic alliances with Accenture Ltd; AT&T Inc.; Cap Gemini S.A.; EMC Corporation; Fujitsu Limited; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Johnson Controls Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nokia Siemens Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.; VMware, Inc.; BMC Software Inc.; and Wipro Limited. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION (NASDAQ:MSFT) - Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a range of software products and services for various computing devices worldwide. The companys Windows & Windows Live Division segment offers Windows operating system, Windows Live, and Internet Explorer. It offers Windows operating system, which include Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP Home, as well as Windows Live suite of applications and Web services. Microsofts Server and Tools segment provides Windows Server operating systems, Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Visual Studio, Silverlight, System Center products, Biz Talk server, Microsoft consulting services, and product support services. This segment also provides enterprise consulting and product support services; and training and certification to developers and information technology professionals, as well as builds standalone and software development lifecycle tools for software architects, developers, testers, and project managers. The companys Online Services Division segment offers online information products, such as Bing, MSN portals, and channels; and an online advertising platform for publishers and advertisers. Microsofts Microsoft Business Division segment offers Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM, as well as Microsoft Office Web Apps. The companys Entertainment and Devices Division segment develops, produces, and markets the Xbox 360 platform; PC software games; online games and services; Mediaroom, an Internet protocol television software; Windows Phone and Windows Embedded device platforms; the Zune digital music and entertainment platform; and application software for Apples Macintosh computers, Microsoft PC hardware products, and other devices. This segment also involves in retail and marketing of packaged versions of the Microsoft Office system and the Windows operating systems. Microsoft was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) - Ford Motor Company primarily develops, manufactures, distributes, and services vehicles and parts worldwide. It operates in two sectors, Automotive and Financial Services. The Automotive sector offers vehicles primarily under the Ford and Lincoln brand names. This sector markets cars, trucks, and parts through retail dealers in North America, and through distributors and dealers outside of North America. It also sells cars and trucks to dealers for sale to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. In addition, this sector provides retail customers with a range of after-sale vehicle services and products in the areas, such as maintenance and light repair, heavy repair, collision repair, vehicle accessories, and extended service contracts under the Ford Service, Lincoln Service, Ford Custom Accessories, Ford Extended Service Plan, and Motorcraft brand names. The Financial Services sector offers various automotive financing products to and through automotive dealers. It offers retail financing, which includes retail installment contracts for new and used vehicles; direct financing leases; wholesale financing products that comprise loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory; loans to dealers to finance working capital, purchase real estate dealership, and/or make improvements to dealership facilities; and other financing products, as well as provides insurance services. Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 and is based in Dearborn, Michigan.

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